The Association of Private Enterprise Education and the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation have teamed up on a paper contest on the relationship between public policies and economic growth. The details are here. It's notable that this is open to grad students and faculty of any rank or [...]
THE debate over health care reform has tended to focus on the nuts and bolts of potential policies—how they'll affect the deficit, what [...]
Here’s a wonderful essay from a year ago by 2006 Nobel Laureate economist Edmund Phelps. (HT Michael Strong) A sampling:
The other difficulty with that fashionable hypothesis [that market-generated economic growth is overrated] is that most of the alleged costs are illusory or trumped up. The idea that a well-functioning [...]
In the season of good cheer, it is certainly gratifying to know that some in the economic forecasting business are actually feeling cheerier:
Reaffirming last month's call that the Great Recession is over, NABE [National Association for Business Economics] panelists have marked up their predictions for economic growth' [...]
FOR depressed areas economic growth should be a godsend. It provides jobs, and income, to people who need it most. But often [...]
VIA Tyler Cowen, here's an interesting bit of economic history research:
Many theories, most famously Max Weber's essay on the 'Protestant ethic,' [...]
Technologies to cut back carbon dioxide emissions from factories and vehicles that feed the global economy add costs to fuel, food and more, an option that appeals neither to industrial nations struggling with the global economic meltdown or developing nations trying to ramp up economic growth.
[...]Are the days of the jobless recovery numbered? Yes, according to the latest survey that was released today.
The Capital Spectator has obtained a copy of the full report. Among the highlights:
* NABE-member economists predict a moderately higher pace of economic growth for this year's fourth quarter [...]
Far from where we want to be
THE good news is, the OECD's latest economic forecast revises up sharply projected economic growth for member nations. The bad news is, that still leaves OECD economies in pretty dismal shape. The organisation is now projecting that OECD members will grow by [...]
1. Strange China video of the day.
2. Do men live longer if they marry smarter women? (No, I haven't checked if the original paper deals with the identification problem in a reasonable way.)
3. Another review of *The Big Questions*.
4. Daron Acemoglu in Esquire on economic growth.
5. [...]
Securitization has provided banks with an alternative source of liquidity, different from central banks open-market operations. It has become a tool for spreading the illusion of savings-driven economic growth and for creating the FULL ARTICLE by Niikolay Gertchev
[...] Becker is certainly right that growth in productivity is an important driver of economic growth. But we must consider the source of the growth in productivity in order to understand the conjunction in the last two quarters of rapidly rising productivity with rapidly rising unemployment.
If productivity growth is the result [...]
Becker is certainly right that growth in productivity is an important driver of economic growth. But we must consider the source of the growth in productivity in order to understand the conjunction in the last two quarters of rapidly rising productivity with rapidly rising unemployment.
If productivity growth is the result [...]
